musou

musou wrote

Reply to [cw] Steam is in the rape fantasy business by neku

i really hope this forces steam to rethink their hands off policy on this kind of shit because it's obviously aimed squarely at sex predators.

IMO the only people who should ever be making games or other media about sexual assault, are people who have survived sexual assault

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musou wrote (edited )

Reply to [huuge cw rape, other v bad things] Steam game about [...] will test Valve’s hands-off approach by hollyhoppet

i am not against explicit depictions of sexual violence in fiction but i feel like the only people whose works are worth paying attention to on the subject are people who have survived sexual violence.

i don't gamble but if i did i'd place a huge amount of money on this person not being among them.

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musou wrote (edited )

Reply to soup burrito by devtesla

is it a burrito containing soup or a soup made out of burrito ingredients?

i'm imagining a sealed tortilla containing hot soup like a dangerous edible water balloon

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musou wrote

Reply to Scared Post by flabberghaster

i feel this every day too. for whatever it's worth, i don't think it's purely bystander effect, because a lot of people do try to stop this from happening. but the ones who try most seriously end up paying with their freedom or their lives.

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musou wrote (edited )

Reply to been too long since we've had a good chart here by hollyhoppet

If the jewel which everyone desired to possess lay far out on a frozen lake where the ice was very thin, watched over by the danger of death, while, closer in, the ice was perfectly safe, then in a passionate age the crowds would applaud the courage of the man who ventured out, they would tremble for him and with him in the danger of his decisive action, they would grieve over him if he were drowned, they would make a god of him if he secured the prize. But in an age without passion, in a reflective age, it would be otherwise. People would think each other clever in agreeing that it was Unreasonable and not even worthwhile to venture so far out. And in this way they would transform daring and enthusiasm into a feat of skill, so as to do something, for after all, "something must be done." The crowds would go out to watch from a safe place, and with the eyes of connoisseurs appraise the accomplished skater who could skate almost to the very edge (i.e. as far back as the ice was still safe and the danger had not yet begun) and then turn back. The most accomplished skater would manage to go out to the furthermost point and then perform a still more dangerous-looking run, so as to make the spectators hold their breath and say: "Ye Gods! How mad; he is risking his life." But look, and you will see that his skill was so astonishing that he managed to turn back just in time, while the ice was perfectly safe and there was still no danger. As at the theatre, the crowd would applaud and acclaim him, surge homeward with the heroic artist in their midst, to honour him with a magnificent banquet. For intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into a play. During the banquet, admiration would reach its height. Now the proper relation between the admirer and the object of admiration is the one in which the admirer is edified by the thought that he is a man like the hero, humbled by the thought that he is incapable of such great actions, yet morally encouraged to emulate him according to his powers; but where intelligence has got the upper hand the character of admiration is completely altered. Even at the height of the banquet, when the applause was loudest, the admiring guests would all have a shrewd notion that the action of the man who received all the honour was not really so extraordinary, and that only by chance was the gathering for him, since after all, with a little practice, everyone could have done as much. Briefly, instead of being strengthened in their discernment and encouraged to do good, the guests would more probably go home with an even stronger predisposition to the most dangerous, if also the most respectable, of all diseases: to admire in public what is considered unimportant in private— since everything is made into a joke. And so, stimulated by a gush of admiration, they are all comfortably agreed that they might just as well admire themselves.

Sören Kierkegaard, "The Present Age," 1846

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musou wrote

Reply to whom trying out Apex Legends by toasthaste

okay i had to sign up for origin and all my names were taken so i'm foldleft, add me if you wanna play! no guarantees that i will be any good but i will try my best

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musou wrote

Reply to whom trying out Apex Legends by toasthaste

i guess if i put my feet in the air then they are both apexes and leg ends.

is it first person or third person? does it have fortnite-style building mechanics?

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